Re: Specifying names for tap interfaces

[Sverre Froyen <sverre%viewmark.com@localhost>]

On Saturday 23 June 2012 19:55:47 Mouse wrote:
> >>> The ethernet address is not guaranteed to be unique.
> >> 
> >> But you can *choose* to make them unique, can you not?  Seems to me
> >> this is just like any other label.
> > 
> > No, see vlan(4) for example.
> 
> Or most (all?) sparc32 machines, which (as is permitted by the spec)
> have Ethernet addresses associated with machines rather than
> interfaces; if such a machine has multiple interfaces, they usually
> (always?) all use the same MAC address.

Thanks for the examples. I seem to remember running into the sparc case in 
some distant past.

Sverre